Vietnam War Perspectives: Recent Episodes
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Supplemental listening for the new Ken Burns and Lynn Novick documentary The Vietnam War and companion podcast The American War, curated by The Washington Post.
Recordings from a marine in the Vietnam War who took a tape recorder with him into combat and sent his tapes back home — until he was killed in action.
Viet Thanh Nguyen (also featured on Second Wave) won a Pulitzer Prize for his writing about the Vietnam War. He talks about his writing on this literary-focused podcast.
A conversation with one woman who came to terms with how her father was affected by his experience in Vietnam.
Another long interview with Ken and Lynn, and General McPeak, who worked with them on their film, this time from OPB’s Think Out Loud.
Ahead of the documentary release, host Dan Rodricks speaks with Arnold R. “Skip” Isaacs, who covered the war in the 1970s for The Baltimore Sun.
Vietnamese veteran Le Van Lang remembers the war in the Viet Cong’s underground tunnel network in South Vietnam.
KUOW and PRX’s new Second Wave podcast explores the Vietnamese-American refugee experience. This first episode tackles how the Vietnam War still affects Vietnamese-American families.
The New Yorker Radio Hour revisits a story that ran 50 years ago — a young reporter whose “eyewitness report on the strategic demolition of a village helped change how we saw the Vietnam War.”
Revisionist History takes on the story of a top-secret research project in an old villa in downtown Saigon.
Ken and Lynn sat down with Marc Maron for a long interview, in WTF style, about their new documentary.
PRI uses secret recordings of President Lyndon Johnson to construct an oral history of his presidency and struggles in Vietnam.
In the premiere episode of “The American War,” Alyssa talks to Ken Burns and Harvard professor Fredrik Logevall about episode one of “The Vietnam War,” discussing the stories Americans tell ourselves about what happened to our country during the Vietnam War — and why those stories don’t add up.